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Crown five is here!

October 25, 2013 | birth announcement, crown, Gary Combs, God, grandfather, grandparent, jesus, Samuel

“Grandchildren are the crown of the aged…” (Proverbs 17:6 ESV). Our fifth grandchild arrived this week! His name is Samuel Abbott Mitchell and he was born at the Wilson hospital at 9:14 AM this past Wednesday, October 23, 2013, weighing 7 pounds and 11 ounces. Both of his grandfathers (me and Stewart Mitchell) and his uncle

Praising God for a spiritual legacy

August 19, 2008 | church planting, grandfather, legacy, preacher, willow branch baptist church

I was privileged to present a plaque to Willow Branch Baptist Church this past Sunday on behalf of my family. The little church, nestled in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia, is framed by a creek on one side and a gravel road on the other. Traveling out to the church is to experience a kind of

The generational effect of keeping the 2nd commandment

April 17, 2008 | Christian parenting, father, generations, grandfather, legacy

“You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers